Prospective Republican presidential hopefuls Rick Santorum and Ted Cruz appeared the other day at some forum in South Carolina, the highlight of which was a rambling, barely coherent rant by some woman who identified herself as a retired teacher. From various media accounts, I’ve assembled this text of the woman’s argument: Senator Santorum, thank you for being here. I’m Virginia Ellisor, a retired schoolteacher, lifelong political activist, and lifelong resident of South Carolina. I’ll ask you the same question I...

What’s going on here? Former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, the homophobe’s homophobe, seems to have been struck mute by Federal Judge John E. Jones’ ruling that strikes down a ban on gay marriage in Santorum’s home state of Pennsylvania. HERE‘s the deal: The senator appeared on Fox News just minutes after the decision on Tuesday but didn’t address the matter. He tweeted voters to support his chosen primary candidate in Oregon, but couldn’t spare 140 characters to condemn the liberal social agenda coming to his...

It was inevitable, I suppose, that some right-wing wacko would find a way of using the death of Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela to smear Barack Obama and the signature achievement of his presidency. And HERE it is: As condolences and reflections followed the passing of Nelson Mandela, Rick Santorum linked the injustices the former South African president fought and Obamacare. “He was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size...

Of all the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination last year — Romney, Gingrich, Perry, Bachmann, et al — the most sanctimonious was Rick Santorum. As such, the former senator from Pennsylvania frequently was grist for this snarky blogger’s mill (see HERE). And now Santorum, by way of offering HIS ANALYSIS of Mitt Romney’s loss to Barack Obama, is sounding like a candidate for the GOP nomination in 2016: Santorum did not mention Romney, whom he challenged in the primaries, by name during a 21-minute...